Friday Night MANOI – replaced by BUBBLE BOY!

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Friday, March 28th, 2008

That’s right! My usual Friday night MANOI was replaced by Friday night BUBBLE BOY! Pinky was renamed to Bubble Boy as, not only is it more bubblicious, but it also reminds us of Seinfeld. (Nope, the answer is MOOPS!) (<--- Seinfeld joke)

Trying to get it all to work out was pretty a pretty intense thought process. At least, it seemed that way relative to a Friday. Relative to a Monday morning, the thought process could be described as easy. The way Bubble Boy (lol) will rock back and forth, and from side to side is that there will be two servos embedded into the side of the bottom ball. On the servo horns will be string, which will be attached to a paperclip. From there, the paperclip plugs easily into the cross on the top ball.

The reason why I chose paperclips rather than anything else is because it allows more movement. For example, if the top ball moves to the left, the back and forth ones will not constrain this movement. Pretty neat, eh! I'll probably strengthen the cross tomorrow, after I replace the elastic string I used.

This brings me to another point. There isn't much string around, so the first thing I saw, I grabbed. Elasticy string. I thought it would probably work out, but it didn't. Tomorrow I'll replace it with bunchels of thread, or yarn - depending on what mood I am in. (Yarn is bigger - thread is smaller).

These photos show the progress of the process.

During the weekend, keep an eye out for:
- Blog post about Autism & Robots & Robbie
- Blog post (hopefully) about a working Bubble Boy
- YouTube video (hopefully) about Bubble Boy
- Blog post about a very fun Physics lab

Happy Friday night BUBBLE BOY!

Posted in: Projects, Robot.
Tags: Arduino, Bubble Boy, Pinky, Robot

2 Responses to “Friday Night MANOI – replaced by BUBBLE BOY!”

1. Anonymous Coward Says:
   March 29th, 2008 at 8:00 PM

   Hey Robotgrrl,

   I was just curious to see if you were a student at the poly and if so which program you’re studying? I stumbled upon your site today (following the Bristlebot link) You have some very interesting stuff, just wanted to say keep up the awesome work!

2. Erin, the RobotGrrl Says:
   March 29th, 2008 at 8:30 PM

   Hi there!
   You aren’t a coward.

   I’m currently in high school, but I’m into EE&CS and Robotics.

   Thanks a bunch!!!

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